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Monday, September 14, 2015

cfp COLIS 2016

Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS) 2016 will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, June 27-9 2016. COLIS "is a series of international conferences aiming to provide a broad forum for the exploration and exchange of ideas in the field of Library and Information Science, Information Studies, and related disciplines." The keynote speakers are Geoffrey Bowker (University of California, Irvine), Louise Limberg (University of Borås) and Pamela McKenzie (University of Western Ontario). You can submit research papers, short papers, panels, workshops, alternative events and posters. Contributions can be in any area of information science, including Information behaviour and information practices, digital literacy and information literacy. Full papers have to be submitted as complete research papers. Deadline for all submissions is January 15, 2016. http://www.abm.uu.se/colis9/cfp/
There is also a doctoral forum, to be held on 26 June. Submissions for this are due on March 1, 2016Photo by Sheila Webber: I'm sure these were labelled kohlrabi, but they look more like beetroot to me

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Information Literacy is ...

"the adoption of appropriate information behaviour to identify, through whatever channel or medium, information well fitted to information needs, leading to wise and ethical use of information in society." (Webber and Johnston)